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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/7729511.htm http://www.reporter-news.com/abil/nw_business/article/0,1874,ABIL_7948_25826 71,00.htmlPosted on Fri, Jan. 16, 2004 Despite Probe, Halliburton Gets Contract MATT KELLEY Associated Press WASHINGTON - Despite a Pentagon probe into alleged overcharging for fuel delivered to Iraq, the Army awarded Vice President Dick Cheney's former company a contract Friday to rebuild Iraq's oil industry. Halliburton won a competitive bid to rebuild the oil industry in southern Iraq, a contract worth up to $1.2 billion over two years, the Army Corps of Engineers said in a statement. The Army gave Halliburton subsidiary KBR a no-bid contract to rebuild oil infrastructure throughout Iraq shortly after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq last March. The Army opened that contract for competitive bids last fall and split it into one for northern Iraq and one for southern Iraq. The northern Iraq contract, worth up to $800 million, went to a joint venture of California-based Parsons Corp. and the Australian firm Worley Group Ltd. Just days before the Army's award to Halliburton, Pentagon auditors asked for an investigation into possible criminal wrongdoing involving the no-bid KBR oil industry reconstruction contract. Officials in the Defense Department's Office of Inspector General haven't decided which investigators will do the work, the office said in a statement Friday. The Defense Contract Audit Agency last month questioned KBR's charges for gasoline it bought in Kuwait and trucked into Iraq for the civilian market. KBR charged more than double the price for gasoline brought in from Kuwait than it did for gas trucked in from Turkey. Auditors said KBR may have overcharged the Army by $61 million between May and September. Halliburton has denied any wrongdoing and said the Army approved its subcontract with a Kuwaiti supplier, the Altanmia Marketing Co. The Army told auditors the high price was justified because KBR had to get fuel deliveries going quickly to avert a fuel crisis in Iraq. The oil contract probe will focus mainly on possible wrongdoing by government officials, not Halliburton, a senior defense official has said. Democrats have demanded further investigations and criticized the Halliburton contracts as evidence of the Bush administration's rewarding its corporate friends. Cheney ran Halliburton from 1995 until he quit in 2000 to become Bush's running mate, and the company's executives have donated thousands of dollars to the Bush campaign. White House and Pentagon officials say political considerations do not affect the Defense Department's contract decisions. Cheney, a former defense secretary, is not involved in those decisions. ============================ http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-16 -2004/0002091012&EDATE= Halliburton Subsidiary Wins Follow-On Oil Contract In Iraq HOUSTON, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) today confirmed the US Army Corps of Engineers awarded KBR the contract to continue its operations for the Restore Iraqi Oil (RIO) program in the southern section of Iraq. The contract was awarded through a full and fair competitive bidding process. KBR is the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton. "This decision is an endorsement of the courageous work being done by Halliburton's employees in Iraq," said Dave Lesar, chairman, president and chief executive officer, Halliburton. "Rebuilding Iraq is one of the largest and most complex reconstruction undertakings of the past half century. The people of KBR are proud to continue to play a role in the transformation of Iraq." "Of course, we believe the award of this contract validates the decision of the Army Corps of Engineers last year. We were chosen because we were the best qualified with a proven track record of the ability to perform," added Lesar. Since March 2003, KBR made substantial and significant progress toward restoring Iraq's oil production and capabilities. KBR put into action a contingency plan for assessing and extinguishing oil well fires in Iraq as well as evaluating and repairing, as directed by the US government, the country's petroleum infrastructure. "Our employees have had a significant and positive effect on the quality of life for troops and the people of Iraq, and this decision confirms their work as builders, architects, planners, security experts, geologists and engineers. They are working side-by-side with the military to create a sense of normalcy for the Iraqi people," added Lesar. "Our employees have been one of the linchpins in our country's efforts to restore self-sufficiency to Iraq. This particular contract is key to that effort because independent oil and fuel supplies help liberate the country." Halliburton is resolved to assist the Iraqi people rebuild the country's oil infrastructure while also carrying out the important responsibility to maintain oversight in the expenditure of funds. For more than 60 years, during both Democrat and Republican administrations, Halliburton has a record of service to the defense to the United States. We built war ships for the Navy in World War II, and we have supported troops in Somalia, Rwanda Haiti, the Balkans and Afghanistan. In the first Gulf War, we helped bring under control half the oil wells in Kuwait. Halliburton employees are prepared to meet the challenge regardless of the difficulties and risks involved. Halliburton, founded in 1919, is one of the world's largest providers of products and services to the petroleum and energy industries. The company serves its customers with a broad range of products and services through its Energy Services and Engineering and Construction Groups. The company's World Wide Web site can be accessed at http://www.halliburton.com . SOURCE Halliburton Web Site: http://www.halliburton.com ============================ http://framehosting.dowjonesnews.com/sample/samplestory.asp?StoryID=20040116 21120000&Take=1 16 Jan 2004 21:12 GMT Iraq Oilfield Contracts May Be Postponed Again Copyright C 2004, Dow Jones Newswires HOUSTON (Dow Jones)--Despite reassurances from the Army Corps of Engineers, it appeared likely Friday afternoon that the agency would once again postpone awarding long-awaited contracts to restore Iraq's oilfields. The Army Corps had previously said it would award the contracts by Jan. 17. Given that the government doesn't typically announce contract awards over the weekend, Army Corps officials had signaled an announcement by Friday. Army Corps spokeswoman Carol Sanders told Dow Jones Newswires at 3 p.m. EST (2000 GMT) that she had no information that the contract would be delayed. But contractors, noting the lateness in the day and the keen interest, were skeptical Friday afternoon. "I'm not going to say there's no chance, but I'm skeptical," said one of the applicants. There has been an unusually keen interest in the contracts because the winners would replace Halliburton Co. (HAL), which has gotten $2.3 billion in government work under a controversial no-bid contract. After first saying the Halliburton contract would be replaced by late August, the Army Corps has repeatedly pushed back the deadline, a move that has maintained Halliburton's exclusivity on the work. Army Corps officials have been slowed in recent months because of criticism of Halliburton's fuel imports as overpriced. On Friday, Democratic congressmen said Pentagon reported that a probe had been referred to the inspector general's criminal division. The Pentagon has not returned numerous phone calls seeking comment. -By John M. Biers, Dow Jones Newswires; 713-547-9214; [EMAIL PROTECTED] (END) Dow Jones Newswires 01-16-04 1612ET ============================ http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=138&newsid=27827&ch=0&datte=2004-01 -17 American Military Men Made 2 Contracts for Revival of Oil Industry in Iraq 17 January 2004 | 01:13 | FOCUS American military men signed two contracts for the revival of the oil industry in Iraq. One of the contracts, for USD 1,2 B, was given to the Kellog Brown and Root company. ============================ http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=669&ncid=669&e=4&u=/usnw/200 40116/pl_usnw/u_s__army_corps_of_engineers_awards_contracts_for_repair_of_ir aq_s_oil_infrastructure150_xml U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Awards Contracts for Repair of Iraq's Oil Infrastructure To: National Desk Contact: Ross Adkins, 501-258-0452 or 214-767-2510, or Lu Christie, 214-767-2510, both of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced today that it has awarded two contracts for future work restoring the Iraqi oil infrastructure to pre-war production levels. The two new contracts complete the pre-war acquisition plan to replace the non-competitive contract with full and open competitive contracts. Both contracts are Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) cost plus award fee 24-month contracts with three one-year options. The contract for work in the southern area of Iraq (news - web sites) was awarded to Kellogg Brown and Root of Arlington, Virginia and the other for work in the northern sector of the country was awarded to Parsons Iraqi Joint Venture (Parsons with its teaming subcontractor Worley Group of Australia), Houston, Texas. The two contracts have no geographical overlap. Each will have a minimum value of $500,000. As amended, the maximum value for the life of the contract for the northern oil fields will be $800 million and for the southern oil fields will be $1.2 billion. Those amounts are contract capacity amounts. The actual amount of the contract capacity that will be used will depend on the requirements based on conditions on the ground at the time and may or may not reach the contract capacity. The competition for the two contracts was full and open in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation. This process provides for a fair and impartial evaluation of the offerors' proposals. The contractors were selected on the basis of best value to the government and qualifications to do the work described in the solicitation. The new IDIQ contracts will cover a full range of services. These include, but are not limited to, extinguishing oil well fires; environmental assessments and cleanup at oil sites; oil infrastructure condition assessments; engineering design and construction necessary to restore the infrastructure to a safe operating condition; oilfield, pipeline and refinery maintenance; procurement and importation of fuel products; distribution of fuel products within Iraq; technical assistance in marketing and sale/export; and technical assistance and consulting services to the Iraqi oil companies. The Corps of Engineers' mission is to restore the oil production, oil refining and gas processing capability to pre-war levels for the benefit of the Iraqi people. The mission includes humanitarian assistance. The Corps is providing emergency supplies of gasoline, LPG and other petroleum products to distribution points operated by the Iraqi Ministry of Oil for use by the Iraqi people. Exceeding their project goals, the Iraqi Ministry of Oil and the Corps, working together, have brought crude production to over 2.2 million barrels per day with up to 1.8 million barrels being exported daily. See website for more information: http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/cepa/iraq/oilfires.htm. http://www.usnewswire.com/ -0- /C 2004 U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/ ============================ http://money.iwon.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt_top.jsp?cat=TOPBIZ&src=201&feed=reu&sec tion=news&news_id=reu-n16471705-u1&date=20040116&alias=/alias/money/cm/nw U.S. Army awards Iraq oil deals to KBR, Parsons Friday January 16, 6:17 PM EST (Adds details, Halliburton reaction) By Sue Pleming WASHINGTON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. Army on Friday awarded $2 billion worth of contracts to repair Iraq's oil industry to a unit of Vice President Dick Cheney's old firm Halliburton (HAL) and U.S. construction giant Parsons, which teamed up with Worley Group of Australia (WOR). The two contracts, one for the northern oil fields that went to Parsons and the other for Iraq's southern oil fields that went to Halliburton's Kellogg Brown and Root, followed months of controversy over work done by KBR under its first deal to rebuild the oil sector. The Army Corps of Engineers said in a statement the two contracts would each have a minimum value of $500,000 each and that the maximum value for the north would be $800 million and for the south it would be $1.2 billion. The first contract to rebuild the oil sector was handed to KBR last March on a no-competition basis and the Corps pointed out that Friday's contracts were awarded in "full and open competition." "The contractors were selected on the basis of best value to the government and qualifications to do the work described in the solicitation," the Corps said in a statement. Halliburton said the new contract validated all the work it had done in Iraq under the first contract, which has given the company $2.3 billion in business so far. "This decision is an endorsement of the courageous work being done by Halliburton's employees in Iraq," said Dave Lesar, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Halliburton. "We were chosen because we were the best qualified with a proven track record of the ability to perform," added Lesar. The Halliburton first Restore Iraqi Oil contract was clouded with controversy, from allegations in a draft audit that the company overcharged for some services to others that it got the work because of its close ties to the White House. The Pentagon's Inspector General was asked by military auditors this week to look into the pricing issue. The new work will include extinguishing oil well fires; environmental assessments and cleanup at oil sites; oil infrastructure condition assessments; engineering design and construction necessary to restore the infrastructure. "The Corps of Engineers' mission is to restore the oil production, oil refining and gas processing capability to pre-war levels for the benefit of the Iraqi people," the statement said. The Corps said that crude production was now at over 2.2 million barrels per day with up to 1.8 million barrels being exported daily. Other known bidders for the work had included U.S. Fluor Corp. (FLR), which had formed a joint venture with Britain's Amec Plc (AMEC) in April with an eye to winning work rebuilding Iraq's oil industry. C2003 Reuters Limited. RELATED QUOTES Symbol Last Trade Change HAL 27.49 +0.64 FLR 39.60 +0.45 Quotes delayed up to 20 minutes. ========================== http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3405201.stm KBR wins new US army contract Last Updated: Friday, 16 January, 2004, 23:21 GMT Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) has won a new US army contract to help repair Iraq's dilapidated oil industry. Parsons Iraqi Joint Venture and Worley Group also will share in the $2bn (L1.1bn; 1.6bn euros) worth of work. The appointment is likely to raise eyebrows as KBR has been accused of overcharging the US military for fuel. The Pentagon is mulling whether to investigate KBR's owner, Halliburton, over the allegations. The company has denied any wrongdoing. North-South divide Halliburton, whose former chief executive was US Vice President Dick Cheney, had looked to be in the clear after an earlier inquiry. 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